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When young Palestinian Yousef al-Ramouni was lynched by Israeli settlers, the Palestinian Authority remained silent. However, it rushed to condemn the [resistance] operation in Jerusalem yesterday. The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, and Palestine TV followed suit in their coverage of events.

Gaza – As usual, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was not perturbed by the lynching of Ramouni in Jerusalem at the hands of [Israeli] settlers [on Sunday]. However, a flood of reactions were expressed over the five Zionists killed in the attack by martyrs Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal in a synagogue in occupied Jerusalem on Monday.

David Cohen, the Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and his band of neocon Zionists who randomly freeze accounts and bring sanctions against foreign officials and businessmen who do not comport with neocon diktats have now targeted Yemeni leaders. Cohen has systematically brought sanctions against any leaders who pose a threat to Zionist designs, whether they are leaders of Yemen who reject a Zionist plan conceived by former U.S. ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein to carve up Yemen into six provinces dominated by a pro-U.S. government, Hungarian anti-European Union nationalist politicians, or Russian-speaking leaders of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Continue reading Treasury Department Neocons and Zionists play dangerous games in Yemen→

A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle in Jerusalem late Sunday, in what family and friends believe was the latest attack in a recent wave of hate crimes targeting Palestinians.

The body of 32-year-old Yousef Hassan al-Ramouni, a father of two, was found hanging from a steel bar inside his vehicle in a bus depot in Har Hotzvim, an industrial zone in north Jerusalem, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An 11-year-old Palestinian child shot in the face by a sponge bullet during clashes in al-Issawiya on Thursday has been left blind in one eye, a local official said.

Member of a local neighborhood committee, Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, told Ma’an that Saleh Samer Attiyeh Mahmoud, 11, was shot in the face at close range by Israeli forces firing sponge bullets in al-Issawiya during clashes.

Dozens of Palestinian activists crossed Israel’s illegal apartheid wall in the West Bank on Friday near the Qalandiya checkpoint as part of a series of non-violent protest actions to demonstrate solidarity with Jerusalem.

Activists used makeshift ramps and ladders and cut through barbed wire to climb over the apartheid wall near Qalandiya military checkpoint, which is at least six meters in height.

AMMAN (The Jordan Times) – Jerusalem church leaders and Jordanian awqaf officials in the holy city have vowed to work hand-in-hand to defend the holy shrines of the city against “oppression” and maintain the status quo in Al Haram Al Sharif, which is subject to frequent Israeli violations.

Following a Monday visit by a senior delegation of patriarchs and bishops of the holy city and representatives of all the churches in Jerusalem to the compound, and a meeting with the chairman and members of the Islamic Waqf Council and senior staff of awqaf and governor of Jerusalem, both sides issued a statement stressing four principles as they vowed to join ranks to confront Israeli plans to change the reality of the Islamic world’s third holiest shrine.

In a letter to mark the 10-year anniversary of the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat, jailed Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouthi urged Palestinian leadership to give its backing to “armed resistance” against Israel in a letter published Tuesday.

The call came after months of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in and around annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Israeli Occupation Forces shot two young Palestinians, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition in the West Bank, medics said Tuesday, amid heightened tensions between Palestinians and Israelis across the region.

According to Ma’an news agency, 21-year-old Mohammed Imad Jawwabra was shot in the chest during clashes in al-Arrub refugee camp north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.